Sample-holder.



No. 645,047. Patented Mar. 6, I900.

, n. J. BR EEZE.

' SAMPLE HOLDER.

Application filed Nev. 3,1899.) (No Model.)

E E HE HERBERT J. BREEZE, OF PORT HURON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY P. RIEMENSGI-INEIDER, OF SAME PLACE.

SAIVI PLE=HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters .E'atent No. 645,047, dated March 6, 1900.

Application filed November 3, 1899. Serial No. 735,704. I (No model.) 7

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT J. BREEZE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sample-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

junction with the annexed drawings, in

which- Figure 1 is an end elevation of a bolt of goods with my improved sample-holder in proper position therein. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective View illustrating the bolt of goods by broken lines and the sample-holder byfull lines. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the sample-holder, the same being shown with the sample in proper position thereon and ready to be compressed precedent'to pushing it into a bolt ofgoods.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views, referring to which A is a bolt of dress goods; B, the board on which the goods is wound after the usual manner; C, a sample of the goods, and D the sample-holder.

The sample-holder may be made of any ma terial suitable to the purpose, but in the preferred embodiment of theinvention is formed in one piece of tin or other light sheet metal the edges of which are turned, as indicated by a, to prevent them from catching into and injuring the cloth of the bolt. It is made up of one or a plurality of folds b, which are formed by bending the piece of sheet metal upon itself and are adapted to receive and hold folds of the sample C after the manner best shown in Fig. 3.

The lower arm of the lowermost fold of the holder is preferably provided at its outer end with an upwardly-bent lip c, the purpose of which is to enable the holder to more readily enter between the board B and the cloth in the bolt.

In using the holder it is expanded or per- 5 5 end of the sample is extended slightly beyond one end of the holder. With this done the holder is compressed and is pushed into one end of the bolt Abetween the board B and the cloth until its outer end rests adjacent to the end of the bolt. position the cloth of the bolt holds the sam ple-holder compressed, and thereby secures the folds of the sample in the folds of the holder. As pieces are cut from the extended end of the sample by a salesman the sample is drawn out from the holder. When this is done, it will be seen that the sample will pull from one fold to another, thus keeping it'un der the same tension andinsuring it remain ing smooth and otherwise in good condition until entirely used up. When all of the sample has been drawn from the holder, the said holder is removed from the bolt and provided with a new sample and is then replaced in the bolt after the manner before described.

It will be readily observed that when my improved sample-holder is used in conjunction with a bolt of goods the necessity of a salesman handling the bolt when a prospective purchaser asks fora sample is obviated. It will also be appreciated that the holder is With the parts in this simple and inexpensive and is adapted to be readily provided with a sample and placed in and removed from a bolt of cloth without injury thereto.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination with a bolt of goods; of a sample-holder, removably arranged in the bolt and disposed lengthwise thereof; the said holder being formed of a continuous strip of material, and comprising a plurality of superposed folds, and having the bights of the al ternate folds arranged at the opposite ends of the holder, and a sample having folds arranged in the folds of the holder, and an end portion arranged at the outside of the holder,

whereby the sample may be drawn from the ends of the holder, and also having the lip c [O holder as used without removing said holder at one of its ends, substantially as specified.

from the bolt, substantially as specified. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 2. Asa new article of manufacture,the sammy hand in presence of two subscribing witple-holder described made in one piece of nesses.

sheet metal and having a plurality of super- HERBERT J. BREEZE. posed folds, formed by bending the piece of I Witnesses: sheet metal upon itself whereby the bights of HENRY MARX, Jr.,

the alternate folds are arranged at opposite ADAM MARX. 

